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Don't Starve: Shipwrecked – Adventure Game Review
Don't Starve: Shipwrecked is a Adventure game from Klei Entertainment Inc., first launched in 26th December 2016.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 767+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Don't Starve: Shipwrecked Stand Out
Klei Entertainment has partnered with our friends at CAPY, creators of Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery, Super Time Force and Below; to bring fans of Don’t Starve the latest single-player expansion: Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked!
In Don't Starve: Shipwrecked, Wilson finds himself stranded in a tropical archipelago. He must learn to survive all over again in this new environment filled with new biomes, seasons, and creatures.
Don’t let the tropical breeze lull you into a false sense of security – the world might be different, but it is still equal parts unforgiving and uncompromising. You will quickly find these islands are full to the brim with things that want to kill you.
Key Features:
Navigate the Open Ocean: Craft a boat and set sail for adventure!
Explore an Entirely New World: The entire world is different. Explore new biomes filled with new resources. Scavenge for new sources of food. Run for your life from a host of new creatures.
Brave New Seasons: A set of tropically inspired seasons will try their hardest to kill you.
Craft New Recipes: Build an array of new gadgets to help yourself survive these harsh islands.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Don't Starve: Shipwrecked is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th July 2022
Recent improvements include:
- Fixed controller support and added a setting in options to disable or enable controller
- Fixed issue where crocodog world setting would reset after entering and exiting volcano
- Fixed zoom location for messages in a bottle
- Fixed a soft-lock when interacting with menu items near the edge of the screen
- Reworked virtual stick and attack button to be more responsive
- Added UI button to quickly recraft or rebuild items (R3 button on controller)
- Improved item placement for those not using controller
- Prevented accidental taps of UI buttons through the map screen
- Fixed placement of Walani's surfboard
- Fixed some graphical glitches and updated the quality for some buttons
- Fixed issue where changing language would display an unrelated error
- Fixed issue where the opening video would not play properly
Download & Availability
Don't Starve: Shipwrecked is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Don't Starve: Shipwrecked on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Thanks for making this game but can you actually add a sandbox mode? And in sandbox mode can you make that you can never die and you can spawn all the items, boats,and the boat items, along with the animals and monsters,And can you make it that you can have all the characters without doing those boring quests.
Really love this game been playing for years. For some reason now when you hop on the boat it doesnt just float off sometimes your stuck in the island and have to trying steering different ways. Its very touchy to get onto boats and take off from land but everything else is amazing!!!! Our favorite game for years.
When can the online version be available for two or three people to play together.
We dont have a sandbag, please solve this problem :( we love this game very much and its a shame when a mistake prevents us from surviving in musan.
We have been playing this game for years starting with the original version. However, we now noticed the supply list at the bottom of the screen overlaps with the map and rotation controls so we can no longer click on our hats and costs being worn. Also the attach and repeat function buttons overlap with items in the world such as pots and other objects making the gameplay more tedious and not as fun. There should be an option to remove the attack/collect/repeat buttons from the screen. We know the programmers probably made changes like the joystick and the buttons to help plays but dont get why the joystick can be removed but not the buttons. Also the issue with the overlapping rotation buttons and items being worn is very annoying. Please fix.
Love this game ever thing about it hope we get a next one again.
The ability to create new items does not work sometimes. Create new weapon, fire pit or random anything so that the mental health stays high enough level isnt working.
Absolutely awesome game! Very in-depth; very well written game.
Thank you Klei!!! We read somewhere that they were outsourcing the mobile port of both pocket editions, but had recently (like 6-12 months ago) brought it in house. Today they really demonstrated how closely they paid attention to their users and cared about their experience. We think every recurring issue Ive had with the pocket edition was fixed with this past update. Just goes to show that tech debt may not be sexy but dear god is it the best thing ever to be an end user and feel like a company cares about your experience. THANK YOU.
We used to play this game like 4 or 5 year ago and now Im playing again and its just how we remember, it has some visual bugs when you plant berries and other things also when you a a crab its says rabbit little details that we can live with but them getting fixed would definitely make us happy.
We love this game its awesome but woodlegs is way to hard to unlock we just wish they would make woodlegs less hard to unlock if we had woodlegs we would play the game more oh and also we dont have a crashing problem the thing with the crashes just doesnt happen to us.
We cant make the wood gate in shipwrecked dlc,please add the wood gate to this dlc.when we keep dodos in captivity , we really need a wood gate.
We playing this game on ipad m1, there is have some bug where we cant put our sand bag easy, we need to try a couple time to plant it. Can u fix it.
When did you sneak in the Home Sea Home update?! We could swear we checked the update notes every time because we're one of the weirdos who actually like the iOS interface a lot, and we've been really sad that we couldn't play Shipwrecked on iOS because the Home Sea Home content is so, so important. So, yay! It's here at last! (Although it looks like some minor things are still a bit buggy — Walani's descriptions of most of the new content are "It's a…thing", which is afaik the default "oops, we forgot to put in a description of this" description — and the edge-of-the-map endless loop bug is still there.) Update: After finally unlocking completing the quest to free Woodlegs and unlock his character, we were feeling triumphant! So it was really crushing to discover that his exclusive boat cannon doesn't work on mobile. We love this game, but the bugs in this port can get you down.
Discovered Dont Starve: Pocket Edition through Apple Arcade and instantly obsessed. Great game play and world exploration. Im a fan of adventure-plot games where this is more a premise-adventure but very dynamic and unique concept. Ive bought Shipwrecked but as Im starting to play it as we travel, we find we cant listen to music and podcasts if Im playing the game as we typically do while traveling. So not sure – may start the search again for something more compatible.
This game opens up the dont starve world and is a standalone DLC although it would be great if you could also use this DLC in the original game.
- we actually played this first rather than the original Dont Starve and we find this one more enjoyable. – we like the mechanics of this game and it is harder which is nice. The original is way too easy for us. – we love the music and almost everything about this game. + Things we would like: we kind of wish Webber and Wigfrid were here in this game. We know this is supposed to be hard but we feel like its too hard sometimes to get food, manure, and meat especially. – we would honesty rather have a difficult game rather than an easy one. (Not too hard or too easy.) Other than that this game is amazing Klei.
When we first started playing, we wasnt really a fan of consistently dying all the time so we never got too far in the storyline. That was a few years ago, now Im playing this game every other day since getting the hang of things. Ive been playing and getting involved with the world lore and doing tons of traveling. As much as Ive been enjoying this game, biggest issue is when taking a shortcut by going off the edge of the map. Your character gets to the other side but will then go back and forth between one edge to another, trapping you in a mentally degrading loop (in game) and by the time youre free from it, your character is on the brink of insanity. Its very frustrating when this happens and honestly it ruins the game experience.
The game is good, but why is the "pause" icon now located where the armor is and where you can see how many percent of the boat and this little thing really spoils the game please fix it! And so the game is good).
Very necessary advice, regarding the operation of the ship gun, why should the original two-finger click trigger be removed? You have to have a physical target to fire?This stupid mode of operation makes it impossible for players to directly use the ship's cannon to shell the coast and dig for treasure, which seriously affects the game experience of the old captain.we hope the production team can see it.Change back to the original operation or optimize the operation experience of the ship gun on the target.
Every time we try to open the game it crashes we dont know why but please fix this bug so we can have some fun in this game Klein! -anonymous user.
UI is too small on Iphone 16 pro max.
We love dont starve we want more support towards the backbone connection.
The game lags a lot, for instance it can take you up to 10+ trys to start your boat rowing and trying to find a good place on the water for it to even let you place your boat or board.
We adore this game. Truly, we do. But our favorite way to play is relaxing on the sofa on our iPad Pro its just so portable and the size is perfect! Unfortunately, the bugs make it too frustrating. An example? Instant overheating when we enter the volcano, no matter what we wear or do or what season it is. Ive never been able to unlock Woodlegs. Thats the most frustrating one for us. If you play on Steam Ive heard theres a mod to correct this, but no such thing exists on iOS. Ive also run into a bug where our last action just keeps repeating and the only thing that fixes it is to save and quit, and one where when we sail off of the edge we keep bouncing back and forth without getting to the ocean. But those went away with a save & quit. The volcano one is a game-killer. If you go to Kleis forums (where they direct you if you have a problem) youll see pages of people listing bugs and almost all of them have hundreds of views and zero replies. Nothing gets addressed. So be prepared going in.
We would give five stars but the fact that your saved game doesnt stay once you die is absolutely ridiculous and is almost enough for us to not continue paying to play or even play for that matter.
We love the game but every save we get stuck on a sapling! But the game itself is lovely. We love the the mechanics we love the bosses we love the character design all wrapped in bugs and bad controls.
This is the game that you dont wan to use the mobile device to play.
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- 132 70 3. 4. Mod mod bug.
Game doesnt support the backbone mobile controller ps5 version.
We love the game and the characters the gameplay is great just like your original one but one big complaint we have is when you die you dont respawn and you dont have any choice to change that, we would like to see a choice to make it so you can become not everyone is good at surviving and its annoying to restart each time. And another thing the unperturbed character has a hard time putting down her surf board you have to drag it up to place it otherwise shell just walk into the water wall and wont do anything and moving away from land in the board is difficult, she usually jumps off when we try to do that. Other then those things its a 5 star game.
The bugs in this game are ridiculous. Most bugs and crashes out of any game Ive ever played on the App Store. It makes it seriously impossible to enjoy this game.
Ive been play this since it was first released on PC we love this game but the fact that we play and save and than when we load back in almost of our progress is deleted.
Love this game, but sadly the seasons do not change even after we changed the settings. Always remain in mild.
The ship cannons can't be fired.
This game is the littoral BEST GAME EVER but we think that the original is a little better. And we think you should make it so it is easier to get gold! Gold is needed for ALL Science bye.
We think it one of best the games.
We love your game so much we cant wait to see you make a new game and we hope it gets a better rateing.
No update for m1 tab. But still we like pc version so giving 5 star. Please add controller support.
Thank you for making this game.
This is a great game to play on a trip or anywhere else and a fun,hard and punishing game witch makes it so fun.If you like survival games play this and suffer.
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We love Dont Starve, and shipwrecked is like a harder version of it. We love shipwrecked, Its Dont Starve except we can use boats! However, every 10 days, our character says they hear something. And about mid day, those Crocodogs come from the ocean and start storming our base! They follow us wherever, and we cant escape them. Ive tried fighting them off and sometimes Im successful but… Day 20: Winston: Did you hear that? And thats when we knew… They were back… Ive noticed that there is not a No Sweat mode, this was a great feature to Dont Starve as With this mode we could experiment all we wanted, with not too big a consequence. But Shipwrecked does not have this, halting our experimentation. Heck, if No Sweat mode was on here we wouldnt have to worry about Day 10! Also, if you were to make it so Croco dogs dont exist in world settings, the sea hounds will come for you instead… You should make it so you can decide whether or not sea hounds can exist. Another thing, Packin Baggins. Packin Baggins is plotting with the Crocodogs, we swear he is. Every time we go to kill something he gets in the way and we hit him instead, then the monster eats us. Ive tried the hit button instead but we hit Packin Baggins instead of the monster, why, the heck, would we want to kill our mobile chest? WHY?! It would be great if Packin Baggins DIDNT get in the way every time we enter combat… But overall its still a great game! Meat is hard to obtain, but living off yams isnt horrible, great job devs, we hope to see updates in the future! ^_^.
Unlike the game you could get on the Google Play Store you can not play with a controller on the iOS version.
Easy five star game. Firstly the graphics are amazing its like watching a vintage movie. The imagination is stunning: we love the mobs the different lands etc… Anyway id like for you to add a limited swimming time so if the boat got destroyed you can swim for a couple of minutes but overall we have no complaints and we support your work. Thank you for making people enjoy games you make we really appreciate it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
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App Details
- Version: 1.84
- Size: 1,290.63 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Klei Entertainment Inc.]()
Last updated: 15th July 2022 | Genre: Adventure | Developer: Klei Entertainment Inc.